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HARMONY — Gordon Lightfoot
All’s well with Lightfoot
This time it is definitely life imitating art.
Gordon Lightfoot’s Harmony is a beautifully reflective offering that one would expect from a man who had recently won a battle with the Grim Reaper.
However, Harmony was written and primarily recorded before Lightfoot fell ill — though much of the final recording was done while Lightfoot was in the hospital.
“A couple of the nurses gasped when I suggested we name the album Soiled Linen, after the laundry hampers they keep in the hallway,” Lightfoot writes in the liner notes.
The 11 new songs, all written by Lightfoot, cement his position as one of Canada’s most prized songwriters.
Here he looks at several sides of love, regrets and in the touching (and yes, somewhat spooky) Shellfish, he sings about a man not yet finished what he wants to do.
And in the quietly catchy The No Hotel — which in the live introduction he explains he took nearly two decades to write — he shares his wit and insight.
Sure, age has stolen some of the smoothness from Lightfoot’s vocals, but the honesty, confidence and acceptance more than makes up for any loss.
Track Listing:
• 1. Harmony
• 2. River Of Light
• 3. Flyin' Blind
• 4. No Mistake About It
• 5. End Of All Time
• 6. Shellfish
• 7. The No Hotel
• 8. Inspiration Lady
• 9. Clouds Of Loneliness
• 10. Couchiching
• 11. Sometimes I Wish
Sun rating (4 1/2 out of 5 stars)
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